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Showtime’s “Masters of Horror” Streaming *Free* On Roku Devices
Before horror took over television, Showtime aligned the greats and created the forgotten “Masters of Horror”, an anthology series that delivered a new hour-long movie each and every week. Garnering two seasons, it ever quite found its footing and was canceled in 2007.
Behind the films were icons of the genre, including Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, William Malone, Lucky McKee, John McNaughton and even Takashi Miike. I doubt we ever see anything like this again.
While the series has been available to purchase online for quite some time, all two seasons have been added for free to Roku streaming devices, as well as the Tubi channel included on it. This is the perfect way to kick off fall with 26 mini-movies for the horror greats to work your way through. It will be interesting to see how time treats this show, which carried landmark episodes from both Carpenter (“Cigarette Burns”) and Miike (“Imprint”).
You can read about all of the episodes here. An uncut box set also has been made available this month.
Based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards” is headed to FX and Hulu this Summer.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
In the meantime, check out the brand new official poster below.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star in the upcoming series “The Shards.”
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Igby Rigney will portray Ellis, and Graham Campbell will play Thom. Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
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